Race for DNC chair narrows after longshot candidate drops out, endorses Minnesota's Ken Martin

The tract of contenders to go the adjacent Democratic National Committee seat has narrowed aft a long-shot campaigner dropped retired and endorsed Ken Martin, Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party chair.

Martin, a DNC vice seat who has led the relation of authorities Democratic Party chairs, has been considered a frontrunner for the DNC job. 

Martin received a boost aft New York authorities Sen. James Skoufis dropped retired of the contention and endorsed him, Politico reported Thursday morning.

Skoufis told the outlet successful a connection that Martin "will re-center what is astir important for our party: expanding the representation and rebuilding our once-big Democratic structure by taking powerfulness extracurricular of the DC Beltway and kicking the out-of-touch advisor people to the curb."

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Democrats suffered large setbacks up and down the ballot successful the 2024 elections as erstwhile President Trump recaptured the White House and the GOP flipped the Senate and held onto its fragile bulk successful the House.

Martin told Fox News Digital past period that if helium becomes chair, the archetypal happening helium would bash is "figure retired a program to win."

"And we request to commencement penning that plan, making definite we’re looking underneath the hood," helium said. "How overmuch wealth bash we person astatine the party? What are the contracts? What contracts bash we request to get escaped of? And, frankly, bringing each of our stakeholder groups together, that’s the biggest thing."

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Two different apical contenders successful the DNC contention are Ben Wikler, who has steered the authorities Democratic Party successful battleground Wisconsin since 2019, and Martin O'Malley, the erstwhile two-term Maryland politician and 2016 Democratic statesmanlike campaigner who served arsenic commissioner of the Social Security Administration the past year. 

Current DNC seat Jaime Harrison is not seeking different four-year word steering the nationalist enactment committee. The adjacent seat volition beryllium chosen by the astir 450 voting members of the nationalist enactment committee erstwhile they conscionable Feb. 1 astatine National Harbor successful Maryland for the DNC's wintertime meeting.

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.